Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 15:15:08 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: /dev/io Message-ID: <199512311415.PAA28368@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951231075804.1395A-100000@sl-015.sl.cybercomm.net> from "Sujal Patel" at Dec 31, 95 08:02:52 am
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As Sujal Patel wrote: > > I haven't heard any reason why /dev/io is useful or necessary either :) > It seems that just about everything uses KDENABIO to gain IO priviledge. Since the X server code evolved from SysV code, and the X server has certainly been the first one that had a real requirement for it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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